The Irish Times

Ian O’Riordan: Sport is war minus the shooting for Russia

Derval O’Rourke won a rare non-Russian medal in discredited 2006 World Indoors

Sat Mar 05 2022 - 10:18

Sport & Rights Alliance accuses IOC of acting irresponsibly in Peng Shuai case

The Olympic body is accused of prioritising 2022 Beijing games ahead of athlete safety

Wed Dec 01 2021 - 18:54

Senior Olympic official labels criticism of IOC call with Peng Shuai as ‘silly’

Dick Pound says no one else has been able to get in touch with Shuai since assault claims

Tue Nov 30 2021 - 15:32

Tokyo cornered into going ahead with Games – Olympic official

‘We are damned if we do and damned if we don’t’ says former judo world champion

Fri Jun 04 2021 - 20:20

Japan extends emergency Covid rules less than two months before Olympics

Expert warns that Games could even create its own variant strain of coronavirus

Fri May 28 2021 - 14:47

Brian O'Connor: Argument for playing on still stands – even if optics are poor

It is fair to ask whether or not elite sport should continue as the pandemic rages

Sat Jan 16 2021 - 06:00

Poll finds 80% of Japanese people want Tokyo Olympics to be scrapped

Delayed Games meant to start on July 23rd but city is currently in a state of emergency

Mon Jan 11 2021 - 18:42

IOC’s Dick Pound ‘can’t be certain’ Tokyo Olympics will go ahead

‘I can’t be certain because the elephant in the room would be the surges in the virus’

Fri Jan 08 2021 - 10:27

Tokyo Olympics to be postponed until 2021 due to outbreak

Shinzo Abe made the request during talks with IOC President Thomas Bach

Tue Mar 24 2020 - 12:28

Australia coach calls for age flexibility if Olympics postponed

Coach wants players who helped their country qualify to remain eligible in 2021

Tue Mar 24 2020 - 09:04

Tokyo 2020 looks destined to become Tokyo 2021

Going ahead with the Olympics this summer now seems unthinkable

Tue Mar 24 2020 - 03:33

Coronavirus playing havoc with athletes’ Tokyo preparations

Olympics News: Games set to go ahead in June, although some qualifying events hit

Wed Feb 26 2020 - 19:05

Japan insist Tokyo 2020 Olympics preparations progressing as scheduled

IOC’s Dick Pound had said coronavirus could lead to this summer’s Games being cancelled

Wed Feb 26 2020 - 11:47

Russian athletes escape blanket ban from IOC

International Olympic Committee leaves exclusion decision to sports federations

Mon Jul 25 2016 - 01:00

International Olympic Committee backs IAAF over Russian doping

‘This is in line with the IOC’s long-held zero-tolerance policy’

Sat Jun 18 2016 - 17:16

Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko implicated in latest doping allegations

German broadcaster claim politician blocked the reporting of a doping offence by a top-flight footballer

Tue Jun 07 2016 - 21:33

Punishing Russia’s athletes harsh but only fair solution

Time for Wada and IOC to face reality and play hard ball with those not playing fair

Fri May 13 2016 - 20:05

Maria Sharapova not the only player ignoring Wada emails

Many players depend on their doctors or support staff to keep up to date on prohibited substances

Fri Mar 11 2016 - 14:28

Meldonium use widespread in tennis, says Wada’s Dick Pound

Pound suggested that tennis always knew many players were taking the drug

Thu Mar 10 2016 - 08:44

Doha’s bids for world athletics championships under investigation

Both 2017 and 2019 bids subject to IAAF ethics commission admits UK Athletics chief

Tue Jan 26 2016 - 15:27

Adidas to end IAAF sponsorship deal early, reports

Sportswear giant ending contract four years early in the wake of athletics doping scandal

Mon Jan 25 2016 - 08:48

Does Sebastian Coe care or is he merely in love with own loftiness?

IAAF chief might have got job he wanted but he’s lost all prestige and popularity

Sat Jan 16 2016 - 08:30

Wada looks at relationship between Diack and Putin in 2013

Nine Russian athletes withdrew from World Championships in Moscow

Fri Jan 15 2016 - 01:23

Wada report registers qualified vote of confidence in Coe

Council, including Coe, could not have been unaware of extent of doping, report finds

Fri Jan 15 2016 - 01:00

Wada report says Seb Coe must have been aware of doping

Pound: ‘I don’t want to lay the failures of an entire council at the feet of one individual’

Thu Jan 14 2016 - 14:51

WADA report to say corruption was embedded in IAAF

Details of investigation into Russian doping have been leaked to Associated Press

Thu Jan 14 2016 - 11:33

UK Athletics calls for world records to be reset due to doping crisis

The governing body for British athletics has published ‘A Manifesto for Clean Athletics’

Mon Jan 11 2016 - 10:34

IAAF confirms Kenya investigation

Allegations of doping cover-ups have been investigated since March

Tue Nov 17 2015 - 17:23

Diarmaid Ferriter: Rot in athletics will take time to fix

The sad thing now is that I am not sure I would be bothered to wake my own children from slumber to witness an Olympic race

Sat Nov 14 2015 - 03:56

Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko goes on offensive

Britain and the London 2012 Olympics have come underfire after the damning Wada report

Thu Nov 12 2015 - 01:08

Russian sports chief admits country has a doping problem that must be fixed

Mikhail Butov says that they are working to ‘change the mentality’ of coaches in Russia

Wed Nov 11 2015 - 11:39

Russia may be banned by weekend over doping

Sebastian Coe is set to chair Friday meeting of IAAF council ahead of decision

Wed Nov 11 2015 - 01:27

Main findings of Wada report on doping and corruption in Russian athletics

Ban from international competition recommended as 1,417 samples destroyed

Tue Nov 10 2015 - 08:15

Doping report could mean Russian athletes will miss Rio Games

Wada commission identifies corruption and bribery at highest levels of world athletics

Tue Nov 10 2015 - 01:00